Plans for the introduction of new internet surveillance technology which will give the UK Government the potential for an insight into its population unparalleled in history have been announced today in the Queen’s Speech.
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Written by peter
Wednesday, 09 May 2012 10:27
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Wednesday, 09 May 2012 10:27
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011 00:01
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Experts say more software weapon attacks are only a matter of time.
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Wednesday, 01 December 2010 03:53
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Wednesday, 01 December 2010 03:53
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Gary McKinnon, the British hacker at the heart of an extradition battle with the US Government was not alone and was the most junior member of a hacking group largely ignored by the authorities.
An investigation by Future intelligence has been told that McKinnon, who faces a potential 60 year jail sentence if he is handed over to the US, was not a lone hacker roving through US computer systems but was instead the most junior member of an informal five-strong group that regularly exchanged information on US systems.
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Wednesday, 01 December 2010 00:31
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Wednesday, 01 December 2010 00:31
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Many of the recent embarrassing losses of data from US computer systems are due to poor monitoring and computer security and a lack of awareness of the sheer scale of the network, according to experts.
Failings that have allowed the copying of an entire archive in the recent Wikileaks case and forays by groups as sinister and highly motivated as the Chinese and as naïve as Gary McKinnon.
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Monday, 29 November 2010 18:53
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Monday, 29 November 2010 18:53
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Despite the outrage being generated at the diplomatic communiqué posted on Wikileaks that Hilary Clinton ordered a US spying operation to be launched against the UN it is not the first time that it has happened.
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:18
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Wednesday, 17 November 2010 19:18
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Editorial
The coverage of two recent security attacks that have made it into the headlines have underlined the yawning gulf in knowledge that exists between the UK’s media and the technology that it and the UK’s public use every day of their lives.
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 00:13
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Wednesday, 08 September 2010 00:13
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James Bond’s old Naval department rises from the ashes
Commander Bond would have approved, Naval Intelligence his old stamping ground, is about to be reborn by the Ministry of Defence.
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 00:12
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 00:12
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Hackers are being targeted for attack by US and UK security authorities eager to launch a cyber counteroffensive to kick them off the net Peter Warren reports
- Hackers at 2009 ‘Hacking at random’ conference
Hackers who attack defence or commercial computers in the US and UK in future may be in for a surprise: a counterattack, authorised and carried out by the police and defence agencies that aims to disrupt and even knock them off the net.
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